Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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